Discussions About Getting Around Columbus, Ohio

State Of City Speech 2008: Streetcars

It’s time to start with a 21st Century streetcar in Columbus. Electrified, sleek, modern streetcars that operate alongside cars on High Street, and connect downtown with the Short North, Italian Village, Ohio State’s campus. A study by the Danter Group projected that streetcars in Columbus would help spur thousands of new jobs, new housing, new hotel rooms, new visitors, and most importantly, about half a billion dollars in new economic development. Streetcars will help us connect people to our stores, our restaurants, the life downtown and neighborhoods to each other. Most of all it will give the working man and woman the freedom to get to work without digging ever deeper into their pockets for gasoline. On March 27, I invite you to join me at City Hall, to hear from the financial experts and planners on how we can build and operate the first rail transit system in our city in generations.READ MORE

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That speech contains a wide array of ambitious goals. He definitely makes me believe that Columbus is headed in a very positive direction. The population movement out of Ohio and the Midwest makes Columbus’ success all the more impressive.